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Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Creamy quinoa porridge

I love quinoa, and I don’t eat it nearly enough. Since going
through my (seemingly never ending) fitness bar development phase I learnt that a high quantity of nuts and seeds just
doesn’t agree with my digestion. Nuts and seeds are a great source of protein but I’m taking a little
respite from them to get my body back on track so I need to fill up on alternative protein rich whole foods.

Quinoa!

This seems to sit well with my digestion and is so
endlessly versatile I need to bring this food into my everyday diet a lot more. These chocolate cookiesand also these banana onesare a great option- they will be
my new ‘grab-and-go’ snack fuel for the time being.

Whilst I am familiar with adding quinoa to top a bowl of
soup or to form the base of a salad, I have only recently started experimenting
with sweet versions. With the
freezer now stocked with batches of cooked quinoa portions I figured this a was
the perfect opportunity.

Here I’ve kept it simple with a breakfast quinoa porridge, this was inspired by my recent foray with buckwheat porridge so I felt pretty confident it could work! I lightly spiced it with cinnamon and nutmeg to compliment quinoa's 'nuttiness' and sweetened with mashed banana for an
extra breakfast boost and then topped with just a few chopped walnuts, date sugar and raisins
(and more cinnamon)....mmmmm, gives my
oats a run for their money!

This would be fab topped with my breakfast sprinkles to further sweeten and jazz things up too!

3 comments:

I love quinoa porridge! I make something similar to this all the time, time but I'm excited to try your version. I've never made it with mashed banana before. It sounds delicious! I always have a big batch of quinoa in the fridge, so this will be really easy to make too. Thanks for sharing the recipe!